Professor of painting at the Royal Academy (1782-99): writer on art and culture. William Blake was one of his students

Greatly influenced by the aesthetics of Edmund Burke's Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

Shortly after Barry's death his friend Dr. Edward Fryer edited a two-volume collection of his works (London, 1809) and included some of his correspondence, most notably letters between Barry and his great patron Edmund Burke. Fryer's book remains valuable - in some cases it provides our only source for letters now lost - but is incomplete. This edition draws on Fryer's work and also presents previously unpublished material.